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General News
Our $1.81 billion Budget boost
The more than 1.3 million
Victorians admitted annually into public hospitals will benefit from the $1.81
billion Budget boost to health, which delivers more funding for elective
surgery, outpatient appointments, emergency departments and the single biggest
investment in ambulance services in the state’s history.
Partnership programs on show
An audience of 150 has heard how
partnerships are making a difference to Victorians with complex needs.
Conference on Australia’s health
An Australian Institute of
Health and Welfare (AIHW) conference will provide insights into key health
issues facing Australia.
Ambos take on migrant training
The Metropolitan Ambulance
Service (MAS) has become the first emergency service in Australia to gain
accreditation for formal training through the Adult Multicultural Education
Services (AMES).
Forum focus on grief
Experts from the United States,
Israel and the Netherlands will be among guest speakers at the 8th
International Conference on Grief & Bereavement in Contemporary Society
conference.
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Public Health
Smoking rates down in latest
population health survey
New research shows Victorians
are smoking less and exercising more in a bid to combat chronic diseases such
as obesity and diabetes.
Study on asthma management
Older people are less likely to
access modern methods to manage asthma than their younger counterparts,
according to research conducted by Alfred Hospital respiratory experts.
Influenza vaccine a potential
life saver
Victorians have been urged to
join the fight against influenza this winter by protecting themselves with a
flu shot.
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Youth Justice
Conference targets young people,
crime
Chief Commissioner of Police
Christine Nixon, President of the Children’s Court Justice Paul Grant and
Senior Manager for Road Safety at the Transport Accident Commission David Healy
were guest speakers at the Victorian Safe Communities Network national
conference.
Disability Services
Biggest investment in disability
services
Victorians with a disability
will benefit from the single biggest investment in state history in disability
services.
Project targets child autism,
Asperger syndrome
Many high functioning adults
with autism and Asperger syndrome say it would have been helpful to be informed
of their condition when they were young.
Privacy help for people with
print disability
A campaign by Privacy Victoria
and the Office of the Health Services Commissioner, working with Vision
Australia, is making Victoria’s 800,000 people with a print disability aware of
their privacy rights.
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Rural Health
Geelong hosts U.S. students
Barwon Health’s pharmacy
department has hosted two students from the University of Arizona as part of
the final year of their Doctor of Pharmacy course.
Geelong Hospital Spirituality
Centre welcomes all
Representatives of the world’s
major religions and the City of Greater Geelong Interfaith Network took part in
the official opening of Geelong Hospital’s new architecturally-designed
Spirituality Centre.
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Metropolitan Health
Hospitals to benefit from
capital works
Victorians of all ages and in
communities across the state will benefit from one of Victoria’s biggest
capital investments in hospitals and health services.
Parents on same page at Royal
Children’s
The Royal Children’s Hospital is
providing parents with pagers so they can move around while they wait for an
appointment or procedure.
Family council to advise Royal
Children’s Hospital
An enthusiastic and diverse
group of parents make up the new Royal Children Hospital Family Advisory
Council.
Eye and Ear signs community
accord
Learning your daughter has a
life changing condition is daunting enough but going through the hospital
system with English as your second language makes it even harder.
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Community Services
$39.3 million to support
children and families
Victoria’s most vulnerable
children will benefit from the Government’s $39.3 million 2008–09 State
Budget package.
Family violence is no laughing
matter
Comedian Akmal Saleh launched a
television campaign on World Health Day to prevent the incidence of family
violence.
Aged Care
Jazz by the sea ensures high
note for residents
More than 200 aged care
residents from across the Mornington Peninsula have had the pleasure of a day
of jazz, belly dancing and bocce.
Residents enjoy ride
Residents of Bass Coast Regional
Health aged care facility Griffiths Point Lodge, San Remo, have gone to new
heights for the thrill of their lives.
Program has patients home for
rehabilitation
Caulfield General Medical
Centre’s newest patient care program will benefit both patients and the
hospital.
New aged care home is taking
shape
Combining an Australian-first
teaching nursing home and a state-of-the-art aged care home, Southern Health’s
newest facility is quickly taking shape in Doveton.
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Housing
New Elmwood estate work powering
ahead
Work on new affordable housing
for older people in Wodonga is proceeding well.
Winning designs showcase
changing face of public housing
A Gordon Street high rise in
Footscray is to become a beacon of sustainable liveability, using a design that
won a competition.
Community garden for Park Towers
Keen public housing gardeners at
Park Towers in South Melbourne now have access to their own community garden.
New approach to housing homeless
A groundbreaking partnership
between the Government and Melbourne company Grocon will see a $50 million
supportive housing facility for long-term homeless people built in Melbourne.
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Mental Health
Reform, refocus for mental
health
Victorians with a mental illness
will benefit from a new focus on prevention, early intervention and recovery
with the State Budget including $111 million over the next four years to begin
implementing a new mental health reform strategy.
Project tackles gambler
depression
The Alfred Hospital’s psychiatry
department has developed an innovative Australia-first program to tackle the
mental health problems of problem gamblers.
Peninsula psychiatrist top class
Peninsula Health’s Lucinda Smith
has finished top of her class and won the coveted Maddison Medallion from the
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.
Program turns children into
little champs
Life coaching for little ones is
one way the Little Champs program, run by the Alfred Hospital’s Child and
Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), could be summed up.
Trials to help treat major
depression
Peninsula Health is looking for
volunteers to take part in two trials studying the effects of treatment for
people with major depression disorder (MDD).
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